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The Danaid Salon at the Rodin Museum Henry-Claude Cousseau It’s indeed more than appropriate to have Li Xin, the Chinese “Painter of Water”, assigned to decorate the salon on the southern side of the Hôtel Biron’s ground floor. The oval space takes its name from the presence of Danaid (1885), a piece of sculpture by Auguste Rodin ...

This is my first contact with ceramics. When I stand before a white porcelain slab, I find it already perfect in its purity. Within that blank slate lies immense imagination and energy. How to apply solely a few grams of pigment to convey the closest feeling to this very moment? In the first place, I hope ...

Some encounters seem to have been written, or rather painted, for all eternity. That between Chinese painter Li Xin and Hermes is one such encounter. At the invitation of Pierre-Alexis Dumas, artistic director of the house, the artist produced a special series of paintings for Le Jardin de Monsieur Li. One of these has been chosen ...